St Mary's College (Ponsonby)

St Mary's College (Ponsonby) is a girls school secondary (year 7-15) school in Auckland, within the Auckland Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 1,005 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 388. The school has been open since 1858.

With 1,005 students on roll, St Mary's College (Ponsonby) is a very large school — larger than about 94% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 388, which is well below the national average of 463. A lower Equity Index signals less socio-economic need in the school's community than the national norm. The gap of 75 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 44.5% and Asian at 26.8%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.08 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.